March 2014

Contents

• Society information and meetings - page 1Lists 2014 Society details and announces a talk on Picturing Penrose.
• President’s report and Worner family heirloom - page 2Discusses family photographs, the Exeter railway centenary and scissors used at Mittagong swimming baths openings.
• Picturing Penrose and Joadja tour - page 3Introduces Keith McMenomy’s Penrose book and a Society visit to the former shale-mining settlement.
• Museum collections - page 4Reports visitor activity and illustrates recently photographed collection objects.
• Arthur Upfield in Bowral - page 5Philip Morton traces the crime novelist’s life, writing and move to Bowral with Jessica Hawke.
• Upfield’s later years and an early newspaper - page 6Continues the account of Upfield’s final years and reproduces an 1848 Berrima court report.
• Railway opening at Mittagong - page 7Philip Morton recounts construction of the Picton-Mittagong line and its official opening in 1867.
• Diary and Society information - page 8Meeting dates and postal information printed in March 2014; details may have since changed.

Issue highlights

• The issue introduces Keith McMenomy’s Picturing Penrose and a Society tour of Joadja (p.3).
• Philip Morton traces crime novelist Arthur Upfield’s life and his later years in Bowral with Jessica Hawke (pp.5-6).
• A history of the Great Southern Railway recounts the 1867 opening at Mittagong and the route from Picton (p.7).
• A Worner family heirloom connects the 1931 and 1959 openings of Mittagong swimming baths (p.2).

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